I just heard that Amos E Joel, died this week, aged 90. Who was he? He is often referred to as the father of switching, he pioneered the mobile phone and counted over 70 patents to his name (for more of his long list of achievements see his Wikipedia entry). All of us in the networking [...]

This one via the Inquirer, of all places…
SECURITY FIRM RSA said in its latest annual Wireless Security Survey that London still has far more wireless network access points with 12,276 than either New York City, with 9,227, or Paris, with 4,481.
RSA, which is the IT security subsidiary of storage vendor EMC, has commissioned these independent WiFi security surveys [...]

For anyone who’s even said Microsoft don’t “get” networking, the next year could be when you find out if they really do or not. At this week’s Professional Developers Conference, this hit the wire: “Microsoft Unveils Windows Azure..”
Azure is the Redmond giant’s play for the cloud space. I like Kas Thomas’ post on CMS Watch: “End [...]

It has been a while since a big site was hurt by a Denial of Service attack (DoS - although actually usually distributed denial of service attacks these days). However there was a hit this week on Wordpress.com, home to Automattic Inc’s hosted blog service based on the WordPress opensource blogging platform.
The Blog Herald picks up [...]

F5 Networks (recently on Business Tech Feed: F5 Networks - A Case of Applications and the Network) has partnered with Data Domain to deliver an intelligent data management solution. Data Domain are best known for their data deplucation systems, and are part of F5’s technology alliance program.
The joint solution targets the data-at-rest problem, by moving static and archive [...]